What are your top pet peeves?

[remphish1]

1. Wet socks!

2. Wet Sleeves when I wash my hands too vigirously!

3. Drivers who don't use a turn signal

4. People who have backpacks or large purses at concerts and keep on knocking into me with them/people with umbrellas in NYC don't realize how large they are and almost knock out my eye!!

5. People who don't say thank when you open the door for them or getting acknowledge if you do a driving courtesy

6. Taxes!

7. Ticketmaster Service charges

8. Non self service gas in NJ

9. Valet Parking!!

10. Shopping for electronics/going to car repair places/car shopping salesmen

and last but not least...

11. Walking into spiderwebs in my garage/basement! Yech!

 

Yours?

[jff]

Running the lawnmower too close to the dead tree stump at the bottom of my front hill, awakening a raging yellowjacket nest, but only finding out about it thanks to a few stings on the hand, then being forced to run in terror away from the entire swarm up the long steep hill, being stung repeatedly by numerous yellowjackets all the while, and into the house, which they follow me into and continue stinging me for several more minutes.

 

God I hate that.

[Good Old Neon]

The elderly

 

People who wear watches – especially the people who wear watches and then get all huffy and act put upon when you ask the time, every few minutes

 

Overly precious baby animals who know they’re precious and then try to manipulate you using that preciousness – usually against your will

 

The guy at work who has to “let me just double check with regards to that” everything – and I mean everything

 

People who don’t say “thank you” when I hold the door for them, and then act all surprised and offended when I instruct them to go fuck their mothers and/or themselves

 

The way my toaster never seems to know how to correctly prepare a Pop Tart – leaving it either too cold or burnt, but never just right

[Winston Legthigh]

acknowledge if you do a driving courtesy

I hate when I don't get a wave for coasting and giving someone more room to get in my lane, even though it's like 99% of the time. I never get a wave.

 

Also - I hate it when people speed up to block you from entering their lane.

[The High Heat]

My newest pet peeve is when a restaurant server asks me, "Are you doing okay?" during the meal. It stumps me every time. I've been here twenty minutes and I'm halfway through the meal and NOW you're giving me a greeting? I just don't get it.

[Winston Legthigh]

My newest pet peeve is when a restaurant server asks me, "Are you doing okay?" during the meal. It stumps me every time. I've been here twenty minutes and I'm halfway through the meal and NOW you're giving me a greeting? I just don't get it.

Aren't they just asking you if you need anything?

 

I hate (and this is a recent phenomenon - like in the last ten years) when they ask "How is everything tasting?" How am I supposed to answer? Sweet? Salty? I used to wait tables, and I would never ask that, nor have I ever been trained to ask that. But now I hear it all the time, and I wonder WTF?

[Winston Legthigh]

Whistling.

All Whistling? Like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" whistling? or va-va-va-voom whistling?

[Guest Ordinary Beehive]

1. Being told what to do. All you have to do is ask politely, and I'll do just about anything for you.

2. When my boss asks me to do something verbally, and then sends me an email just a few minutes later recapping our conversation.

3. Stepping in gum or dog shit.

4. When your neighbor, who is also your landlord, let's their dogs piss on the back deck, which drips down on to your back deck, completely ruining the deck, your grill, and all the fun you were planning to have back there.

5. When the stranger next to you at a sporting event, concert, movie, etc. talks to you like you give a fuck about talking to them.

6. When you play poker, risk or another game with your friends and there's one friend that isn't really that into it and ruins the game for everyone else.

7. People who can't do anything socially without being drunk.

 

I could go on and on. Number 1 is really the one thing that makes me angriest in this world.

[redpillbox]

1. The words "you should..."

2. Chewing sounds (usually with an open-mouth, but not necessarily)

3. Seattle drivers

[jff]

People who write checks at the grocery store.

[gogo]

My newest pet peeve is when a restaurant server asks me, "Are you doing okay?" during the meal. It stumps me every time. I've been here twenty minutes and I'm halfway through the meal and NOW you're giving me a greeting? I just don't get it.

Aren't they just asking you if you need anything?

 

I hate (and this is a recent phenomenon - like in the last ten years) when they ask "How is everything tasting?" How am I supposed to answer? Sweet? Salty? I used to wait tables, and I would never ask that, nor have I ever been trained to ask that. But now I hear it all the time, and I wonder WTF?

I've heard people get really pissed off by the question "are you still working on that?" These people feel that the question should be "are you still enjoying your time with your dining companions, and savoring your meal?" Because the "working on that" kind of implies that the whole dining-out process was just a chore. But I'm really not so bothered by that.

 

 

2. When my boss asks me to do something verbally, and then sends me an email just a few minutes later recapping our conversation.

I love it when my boss does this. If he doesn't, sometimes I'll send him an e-mail, confirming what we talked about. I want everything in writing, because my pet peeve is when I'm asked/told to do something at work, then when the shit hits the fan, someone asks me "well, who told you to do that?" and I'm left taking the hit.

 

Actually, my current boss would not sell me out in that way, but the last couple of people I worked for... hoo boy.

[cryptique]

7. People who can't do anything socially without being drunk.

This. And I'll take it one step further: People who can't recount any social event in their lives without describing how wasted they were. Grow up.

 

Some others (I'll limit myself to a few, but I have so many):

 

- People who would rather accept what someone else says than think for themselves and/or do basic research.

- People who can make any situation about them, when so few actually are.

- People who are inconsiderate ... as often as not, I seem to find these people at the supermarket, but they're everywhere.

- People who mistreat animals.

- People who never say "no" to their children.

- The dominance of stupidity and boorish behavior in popular culture.

- Laugh tracks.

- Restaurants that make no effort whatsoever to accommodate vegetarians, even though I'm not one. Also, anyone who ever says to a vegetarian "you can have a salad," as if that's all a vegetarian eats or needs.

- Spoilers on cars. If you're not in some kind of real auto race, you don't need a spoiler. (OK, maybe that's not one of my top peeves)

 

People who write checks at the grocery store.

Oh my lord yes.

[Winston Legthigh]

I love it when my boss does this. If he doesn't, sometimes I'll send him an e-mail, confirming what we talked about. I want everything in writing, because my pet peeve is when I'm asked/told to do something at work, then when the shit hits the fan, someone asks me "well, who told you to do that?" and I'm left taking the hit.

 

Actually, my current boss would not sell me out in that way, but the last couple of people I worked for... hoo boy.

Yeah - the follow-up e-mail is just standard CYA policy. I rarely remember if someone asks me to do something out of the blue, so I tell them to write me an e-mail. It's a nice receipt.

[Guest Speed Racer]

I love it when my boss does this. If he doesn't, sometimes I'll send him an e-mail, confirming what we talked about. I want everything in writing, because my pet peeve is when I'm asked/told to do something at work, then when the shit hits the fan, someone asks me "well, who told you to do that?" and I'm left taking the hit.

 

I have five or six clients I work with who, after they call me, receive an email from me summarizing what we talked about. And they STILL try to pull shit about what I apparently said on the conference call, six months later.

 

On that note, I have a few clients who email me, and then call to see if I received the email, and then send me another email asking me if I received the voicemail. I'm glad they're out-of-state clients, because I'll bet they'd stop by the office after that second email, if they could.

 

My other pet peeves:

 

* People who pass a "Left Turn Yield to Cyclists" sign, and do not yield to me twenty feet later;

 

* People who do not signal when they are turning (especially as stated above);

 

* Clients who say, "but my friend/cousin/uncle/co-worker did it *this* way - can't I?" No. Or yes. That's why you pay us. This shit is difficult, and everyone is different;

 

* People under the misapprehension that "liaise" is a verb. Well, most business-speak really drives me bonkers.

[bleedorange]

Poor grammar

[u2roolz]

My biggest pet peeve is people using the word "impressed" as a response to anything. I just don't like how it sounds in response to anything.

Take someone of the opposite sex: Saying they don't impress you sounds kind of arrogant and pompous. It even sounds stranger if they do impress you. Like they're part of the Westminster Dog Show.

Take a movie: I wasn't impressed by (.....) Why can't you just say "I didn't like it."?

Take a band: I wasn't impressed by (....) See above

Maybe it's ok when it comes to a restaurant because you need food to survive and if it isn't that great then "impressed" might pop into one's head.

 

I should add that I have a trio of brothers (friends) who love love love throwing that word around mostly in the "not impressed" way. It drives me insane. They haven't been "impressed" by anything since 1989. It's like everyone in life is in the audience for an American Idol type show and looking to be "impressed".

 

 

Another thing that I guess I feel that I coined the phrase for : The Boyfriend Bomb: You know guys when you're out there talking to a stranger that happens to be a woman at any type of social setting and you ask a simple question like "Hey, how is it going?" And your reply is "Fine. My boyfriend bought us Ramen Noodles!" (I usually hear the Gap Band's You Dropped A Bomb On Me in my head when this happens) I understand the need to address the boyfriend/girlfriend situation if a stranger talks to you, but not everyone is hitting on each other. Maybe people should wear significant other vanity plates on their foreheads. I guess I hate the subtle but obvious responses.

 

Vanity Plates: OK! If you don't want any fucking stalkers in your life ever, then please don't use a variation of your name on your vanity plate. Also, if you drive like a fricken nut on the road please don't have a vanity plate because that is a lot easier to remember. This happened to me twice with the same crazy hummer. #1 Army Wife (NH) Drove a mile in the passing lane on a 2 way street. People had to get back into their lane because she wouldn't stop. I also saw this hummer at a Papa Gino's parked illegally on the side of the building where it was clearly painted No Parking Fire Lane.

 

I used to hate when parents would come up to my box office at the movie theater I worked at and would ask if the movie had any sex or nudity. If I said no, then they'd send them into something ultraviolent like the just barely PG-13 flick.

 

People at the gym who don't wipe down the equipment that they just used. (This is just my observation from the 2 gyms that I have belonged to locally. Don't hate.) I notice a lot of women don't wipe down their equipment after they use it. I don't know why that is? There are signs everywhere. I'm talking about treadmills here where there's always sweat.

[theashtraysays]

 

- People who never say "no" to their children.

 

 

Not pick a fight, but one of my biggies is having people without kids give me advice on how to raise mine. I hear your point, and you might have a dozen kids for all I know. But in general, advice-giving rights are earned through experience. All others just annoy the crap out of me.

 

That line in Signs "he can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine" is one of my mantra's.

[Guest Speed Racer]

On the topic of parenting:

 

* Parents on airplanes who are screaming at least twice as loud as their child, at their child, telling their child that their child is disrupting the flight.

[Good Old Neon]

 

 

 

 

* People who pass a "Left Turn Yield to Cyclists" sign, and do not yield to me twenty feet later;

 

 

 

I’m really fond of people who disregard yield signs altogether, like, don’t even glance back in the direction of traffic, which ends in them cutting you off, and then they have the nerve to act all surprised when you pull up next to them and/or follow them home whilst brandishing a firearm, a fake one no less.

[Guest Speed Racer]

advice-giving rights are earned through experience

 

To that I would say, we were all kids once - some more recently than others. I'm not one to give unsolicited advice, but there *are* parents out there who get so caught up in "parenting" that they forget that they are dealing with children, not chores.

 

My colleague tells childrearing stories that make me want to ask her if she ever thinks before she says things to her children. I won't; that's her business, but I also won't sympathize when she wonders why her kids are neurotic and have esteem issues.

[Guest Ordinary Beehive]

I've got another one...

 

People who talk about drugs a lot. And people who use drug lingo so casually. Especially those people who claim to know the name of the type of grass their smoking, like, "Man, I got some sweet Telluride Tango. Wanna smoke?"

 

 

[Winston Legthigh]

Another thing that I guess I feel that I coined the phrase for : The Boyfriend Bomb: You know guys when you're out there talking to a stranger that happens to be a woman at any type of social setting and you ask a simple question like "Hey, how is it going?" And your reply is "Fine. My boyfriend bought us Ramen Noodles!" (I usually hear the Gap Band's You Dropped A Bomb On Me in my head when this happens) I understand the need to address the boyfriend/girlfriend situation if a stranger talks to you, but not everyone is hitting on each other. Maybe people should wear significant other vanity plates on their foreheads. I guess I hate the subtle but obvious responses.

 

1: Who asks a stranger "Hey, how is it going?"?

2: A female trying to get rid of you in that situation is probably the best response she should give to a stranger.

3: In a lot of cultures, it's offensive for a stranger to walk up and start a conversation without being introduced by a familiar.

4: If a stranger comes up to me to talk, they're either asking for money or directions. I'll give the latter. For women, it's fair to assume that if you're not asking for either, you're going to be hitting them up. Unless you're George Clooney, it's probably safe to assume it's unwelcomed.

[u2roolz]

1: Who asks a stranger "Hey, how is it going?"?

2: A female trying to get rid of you in that situation is probably the best response she should give to a stranger.

3: In a lot of cultures, it's offensive for a stranger to walk up and start a conversation without being introduced by a familiar.

4: If a stranger comes up to me to talk, they're either asking for money or directions. I'll give the latter. For women, it's fair to assume that if you're not asking for either, you're going to be hitting them up. Unless you're George Clooney, it's probably safe to assume it's unwelcomed.

 

That was only an example. My point was asking a question or mainly making conversation and having a response like the one that I mentioned.

[Winston Legthigh]

That was only an example. My point was asking a question or mainly making conversation and having a response like the one that I mentioned.

So, if you're not hitting on her, you're just making small talk?

 

Isn't small-talk a passive-aggressive way of flirting?

[Kevan]

The elderly

 

People who wear watches – especially the people who wear watches and then get all huffy and act put upon when you ask the time, every few minutes

 

Overly precious baby animals who know they’re precious and then try to manipulate you using that preciousness – usually against your will

 

The guy at work who has to “let me just double check with regards to that” everything – and I mean everything

 

People who don’t say “thank you” when I hold the door for them, and then act all surprised and offended when I instruct them to go fuck their mothers and/or themselves

 

The way my toaster never seems to know how to correctly prepare a Pop Tart – leaving it either too cold or burnt, but never just right

 

Jack Handey is a VC'er? Awesome! I love your stuff. Cracks me up every. time.

 

 

Slow people in the passing lane, especially it they have vanity plates.

Whistling.

Blow hard know it alls.

My neighbor's raggedy volley ball net that is in the side of the yard that i have to look at. Those lazy bitches DO NOT play volleyball. or mow their grass. or clean their gutters.

Hillbillys. Since when is being an ignorant hillbilly in style?

 

I think its because you don't like to see people happy.